Seattle Meteor Shower

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Seattle meteor shower. The american meteor society says this was likely a random event unrelated to a meteor shower that s currently lighting up the sky around the world. Seattle wa the perseid meteor shower is about to hit its peak over western washington and it promises to be a show assuming some cloudy weather doesn t spoil it all. Normally the september epsilon perseids meteor shower spe produce a peak of around 5 meteors per hour at maximum.

This view looking east at 6 000 feet elevation on table mountain near ellensburg shows a meteor in the perseid shower entering earth s atmosphere. The perseid meteor shower is one of the top meteor showers of the entire year and can produce 50 to 75 meteors per hour meaning that on average skywatchers could see a shooting star every minute. Click and drag to explore other parts of the sky.

2020 guide to meteor showers supermoons in washington across washington wa quadrantids start 2020 off with a display of up to 100 blazing blue shooting stars an hour and four supermoons are. This year with a 60 percent illuminated moon rising near 22 30 10 30pm local summer time one could easily dismiss the probably of seeing anything extraordinary from this source. Steve ringman the seattle times 2010 by.